This was a delightful read. A story told through letters about a group of people you will gradually fall in love with. I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to connect with the characters through their letters but I was proved wrong. The content of the letters were so vivid and full of so much warmth that it is bound to touch your heart. The book is funny, witty, emotional and informative. It is full of sunny, quirky and brooding characters. It’s fun and lighthearted. Sometimes so lighthearted that you forget that the backdrop of this story is the Occupation by the German soldiers. That is one thing I strongly disliked about this book. The sufferings were portrayed but in a lighthearted way. There were also instances of some characters strongly placing their opinions that not all German soldiers were evil. I get that. But I feel in this story the two sides - that German soldiers forced great atrocities on the occupied people and that some of the German soldiers were kind - wasn’t balanced out properly. It negated the effects.